May 2009
41 posts
WatchHitler is a meme
Yes, these Downfall spoof clips have been done to death, but this meta-one is the first one that had me laugh out loud
PatchMatch content-aware image editing →
I’d love to play around with this myself
“I cannot praise Japan any longer. The war is not to protect the country but the...”
– Hayashi Tadao, Japanese Kamikaze, October 12, 1941
WatchSpinning vinyl ipod App (via gedankentank, F.A.T)
Imagining the Tenth Dimension [video] →
I’m afraid I will have to watch this a couple more times.
Best Visual Illusion of the Year 2009 - First... →
Danger Mouse is one clever fellow →
In a legal kerfuffle with EMI ever since the Grey Album, he is going to release his new album Dark Night Of The Soul as a blank CDR alongside the album art.
All copies will be clearly labeled: ‘For Legal Reasons, enclosed CD-R contains no music. Use it as you will.’
Banana problem
[from the story of the little girl who said “I know how to spell ‘banana’, but I don’t know when to stop”]. Not knowing where or when to bring a production to a close
— answers.com
“You become a woman when people come out of your vagina and step on your dreams”
– Louis CK - Girls vs Women
An awesome birthday gift
My wife surprised me on my 40th by writing to all of my heroes and getting them to send excuses as to why they could not come out for a drink on my birthday. We had people like Stephen Fry, Bill Bailey, Tim Minchin, Hugh Laurie etc reply and it was awesome.
I have a whole bundle of these excuses (my wife asked them to be as ludicrous and obviously false as possible).
[..]
Here are some of...
WatchlittleBits: the Lego of electronics — small modules that can simply be snapped together to create complex working structures.
littleBits aims to move electronics from late stages of the design process to its earliest ones, and from the hands of experts, to those of artists, makers and designers
The Stranger's 2009 Sex Survey Results →
“What’s the sexiest thing you did in the last year?” — “Fucking on our hands and knees in the muddy banks of a river near Darrington while spawning salmon leapt from the water all around us”
Now I have a “Bambi”/hardcore porn crossover in my mind. Is that bad?
Bryan Singer and Christopher McQuarrie and the... →
The gist: director Singer and writer McQuarrie found out after finishing it that they both disagreed on what actually happened in the movie.
I find that comforting.
“If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.”
– Mario Andretti
via Tim Ferriss
yooouuutuuube.com →
creates a mesmerizing “big wall”-effect from any YT video you throw at it.
Examples are available in the following great flavours: what the fuck, I want a screensaver of this and as if Aphex Twin wasn’t messed up enough already.
The Cool Cam: a lesson on the importance of... →
